Miscellaneous notes

This page contains uncategorized notes and links associated with The Furnivalls of Sandbach that I have encountered while researching that family.

  1. Very early Furnivals at Some Fabulous Pedigrees.
  2. Furnival arms shown at Heraldry of some Yorkshire Families .
  3. Several references to the Furnivalls of Betchton in Pedigrees made at the Visitation of Cheshire, 1613, by Richard and Henry St George, 1909.
  4. Anthony Furnivall of Milne House, Chelford, married Elizabeth Brassie before 1623.
  5. Richard Furnivall occupied land called Deepe moore in Bradwall in 1638. DDX 222/4 2 Oct 1638.
  6. John Furnivall witnessed documents DDX 10/1, 24 Feb 1672/3 and DDX 10/2 1 Mar. 1672/3. Also mentioned are Richard Shawe of Sandbach, butcher, William Shaw de Dingle [in Sandbach], T. Shawe, Raphe Shawe. DDX 10/6 in the same bundle mentions William Wilson of Sandbach, gent. (Also members of the Shawe family of Sandbach and Midgebroook, Somerford Booths, in pronuptial settlement document DDX 10/4,5 29-30 Apr 1711.)
  7. The Crewe Collection [DCR/1/1B - DCR/35/1] contains references to several generations of Furnivalls, including an undated Randle Furnival Marriage Settlement [DCR/2/10/13]. Also contains references to Shawe, Twamlowe, Proudlove, Raven, Kent. Also indenture: "Richard de Bradewal leased to Thomas de Sonbach a piece of land in Bradewal" [DCR/1/5/1] Whitsuntide, 1275. Arclid is also mentioned.
  8. Wilson of Sandbach collection. Many references to Furnivall and Shawe. Document DWS/MTD/2/6 9 Jas. I. Nov. 7th [1611] refers to Wm Lyngard, parson, of Warmingham, Chesh; John Raven of Elworth, Ches; Wm Shawe. Also Bennion/Benyon of Ash, Salop.
  9. James Caldwell (1759-1838) was a lawyer and businessman, who was a friend and colleague of Josiah Wedgwood and other notables of the Potteries. In The Diary of James Caldwell he mentions meeting the Furnivals of Sandbach. [31 Aug 1815, 18 Apr 1817, 16 Jan 1818, 1 Dec 1819]. I would guess that these were the Betchton Furnivalls, not the Taxmere ones. (Unfortunately, the original transcriptions of these diaries are no longer online, and the archive copy, captured in 2008, does not extend to August 1815.)

    Not related to the Furnivalls, but interesting to me for other reasons: He mentions Congleton Corn Mill [7 Sep 1813]. He also mentions staying at the Wilsons hotel in Runcorn [17 Apr 1817] and in Runcorn inspecting Telford's plan for a river bridge over the Mersey:

    Looked at the plan of the proposed chain Bridge over the River. The Bridge proposed by Mr Telford to be 2000 feet in length, in divisions of 500 feet & 500 feet & 1000 feet in the Centre between the Erections that are to support the Chains. The passage way to be 60 feet above high Water mark. Estimate . . .[£84000?]. If executed it will certainly be a noble & useful work.
    [More on Telford's bridge at: Mechanics magazine, Volume 9, 1828. The bridge was, of course, never constructed.]
  10. George Frederick Furnivall ledger.
  11. William Pedley of Congleton, possibly the same as the witness to Daniel Furnivall's will, is mentioned in Thornicroft genealogy. Pedley was granted a letter of administration to the estate of Mathew Thornicroft in 1825. Another (or the same?) William Pedley is mentioned in Pedley/Barnett/Ball Family History at his daughter's marriage in Sandbach in 1856.
  12. The Siver Bowl 1839 Nov 20, Will of John Galley Day Jackson mentions Wm. Lowndes Esq, and Miss Furnival, and also Arclid.
  13. Nathan Foden was allegedly living at Oak Farm in 1851. However, so far as I can ascertain this was the Old Oak, Marton, Macclesfield, and the person in question was Isaac Foden (HO107/2161/392/4). Not Oak Farm, Sandbach, and not the Sandbach Fodens.
  14. Taxmere Farm is shown in an 1851 Census transcription as being in Ettiley Heath, but this is a very terse abbreviation of the enumerator's description of the electoral district (ED 8b). The full description for ED 8b is the following extensive area, which is mainly outside Ettiley Heath:
    All that part of the Township of Sandbach Including Ettiley Heath, Four Houses beyond the Canal, Yeowood Farm, Pitts Farm, All Plants Houses, Elworth Church and House, Goslings House, Elworth Hall, Smallbrook House, Houses at or near Maltkiln Farm, The North Union Street, 5 Houses at or near the Ancient Briton, Richard Barnett's, Brickhouses and Taxmere.
  15. James Bradley, detained at Bradwall Reformatory School in 1861.
  16. George Furnivall (Grocer, age 71) lived at Crown Bank, Sandbach in 1851 Census, with wife Martha and son William.
  17. William Furnivall, born in Sandbach in about 1806, was a surgeon/physician/GP in Hutton, Somerset. (Censuses, 1841-1881). He married Ruth Gulliver from Simington, Wiltshire, in Devizes in 1825. (Pallot's index)
  18. In an article in the New York Times dated 25 Jan 1880, F J Furnivall announces that the Epinal manuscript has been sent to England. It is described as the oldest extant monument of our mother tongue.
  19. W Furnival was mentioned in dispatches in the Boer War (1899-1902). (Royal Artillery, Officers)
  20. John Sydenham Furnivall (1878-1960) was Commissioner of Land Settlement and Records in Burma. I have done a superficial examination of his ancestry, but can find no connection with Sandbach, Hemel Hempstead, or Egham.
  21. Albert Furnivall, Grocer, Age 47, at 40 High Street, Nantwich, was born in Sandbach (1901 Census, RG13/3362/148/P6)
  22. Lewis Trevor Furnivall (1907-1986) was a Major General in the medical Corps.
  23. Notes on the Township of Arclid.
  24. The Foden family at Oak Farm, Sandbach.
  25. The comedian George Roper was actually named George Francis Furnival and born in Liverpool, but was living in Sandbach at the time of his death in 2003. His birth was registered Q2 1934 in West Derby (GRO 8b 1000), where his mother's maiden name is recorded as Roper. His father was probably Andrew Furnival who married Catherine Roper, and also Robert G Roper married Frances E Furnival, both registered in Q2 1924 in West Derby (GRO 8b 599). Andrew & Catherine, Liverpool 2018WD/17/370. Robert & Frances, Liverpool 2018WD/17/371. Both at St George's, Everton. Further investigation has shown that Andrew Furnival and Frances E Furnival were not brother and sister.

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